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New Innovations - A Fun Way To Create Them -
Steve Gillman (9,691)    How do you dream up new innovations? There are many ways. One of the most fun, though, is the modifying-word list. It all begins with the question, "What if it was...?" You may have heard of this problem-solving, idea-generating technique before. The basic idea is to start with a particular... ( added 1 year 262 days ago.) |
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How to Find Your Inner Creative You -
annalaura (401)    annalaura   Are you trying to be more creative? Are you struggling to think of more creative ideas? Here are some ideas to help you. 1- What are all the possible solutions you can think of? Make a list and don’t leave anything out, no matter how ridiculous or absurd it may sound. Sometimes the most... ( added 1 year 274 days ago.) |
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Brainpower Games Anyone Can Play -
Steve Gillman (9,691) Brainpower games are those games which exercise your mental capacity. My personal favorite is Chess, but there are many others, some of which you probably already play or have played. Here is a look at a few of the more common ones and how they may help your mind. Crossword Puzzles For many... ( added 74 days 18 hours ago.) |
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Abundance - How Can One Achieve This? -
*Bei Yin* (27)  *Bei Yin* We all want abundance in our life. Right? Then our longing could be fulfilled and we would have every thing we want. That's why we look with a kind of admiration to rich and famous people. We try to identify with them and we copy them as much as we can, although this is not really possible... ( added 105 days 10 hours ago.) |
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Refresh Yourself and Your Business – The Creative Intermission -
Reggie Odom (9) Do you feel refreshed at the end of a work day? Or do you feel exhausted, too tired to enjoy the rest of your day? Maybe you even work until bedtime? Working Full Tilt Most of the Time Is a Common Mistake that most business owners make. The good news may be that your work is a major way in which... ( added 189 days 6 hours ago.) |
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Unleash Your Creativity By Developing a Critic Free Zone -
 - Chris Zydel (6) Whenever you decide to take the courageous risk of expressing yourself creatively, you are automatically opening the door for the Inner Critic to come and join the party. The Inner Critic is that scared voice of "No. No Way. Can't Do It. That's Impossible.You're Not Good Enough etc." that shows... ( added 198 days 10 hours ago.) |
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My Technique's Bad And I'm So Sad - Process Painting Blues -
- Chris Zydel (6) Over and over again, I hear a common complaint from students in my intuitive painting classes that goes something like this... “My painting doesn't look the way I want it to because I don't have enough artistic training . I can see this perfectly formed image in my head and I want to make it... ( added 198 days 10 hours ago.) |
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A Memory System You Can Try Today -
Steve Gillman (9,691) You may have heard of the loci mnemonic or memory system. The general idea is to "place" the things that are to be memorized in predetermined locations in your imagination, so you can "find" them there later. The origin of this memory system is generally attributed to a story told by Cicero, an... ( added 201 days 16 hours ago.) |
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Creative Inspiration - How To Have It -
Steve Gillman (9,691) You probably like the idea of creative inspiration, that wonderful new idea that pops into you head without warning. The reality is that such bursts of creativity do happen. Einstein claimed he had great ideas come to him while he was shaving in the morning. And then there is the chemist... ( added 204 days 16 hours ago.) |
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Big Ideas - How To Have Them -
Steve Gillman (9,691) The search for big ideas starts with big questions. What's the basis of spirituality? Why can't people motivate themselves to do what they really need to do? Is there a better way to organize a city? Do we always need to understand a problem to solve it? To generate big ideas, then, whether... ( added 259 days 16 hours ago.) |
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Metaphors We Live By -
Steve Gillman (9,691) What are the metaphors we live by? Is life a journey, a game, a dream, or a movie we are watching? How do these metaphorical perspectives affect our lives? Let's take a look at a few of them. Life Is Purgatory Some people see life as a sort of purgatory to be suffered through. In fact, many... ( added 260 days 18 hours ago.) |
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Out Of The Box - A Mental Exercise -
Steve Gillman (9,691) Want to be more "out of the box" in your thinking? Here's an example of a simple problem-solving/lateral thinking game that can help. Following that I have some suggestions to get you started with your own mental exercise. A group of college students was shown a barometer. Then the professor... ( added 310 days 11 hours ago.) |
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Creative Perfectionism Is A Killer Disease: Here's The Miracle Cure -
Dan Goodwin (60)  Dan Goodwin What is the one single thing that more than anything else stops us from creating? The disease that kills creative projects dead, saps creative energy like a swamp full of starving leeches and can destroy a previously healthy and productive creative artist in hardly any time at all? The answer is... ( added 358 days 19 hours ago.) |
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Creative Perfection: 5 Reasons Why You Destroy Your Creativity By Trying To Achieve The Impossible -
Dan Goodwin (60) Dan Goodwin Whoever you are, whatever your preferred creative field, there’s one guaranteed fail-safe method for causing consistent, damaging and painful frustration in your creative life. One absolutely, so-sure-you-can-bet-your-house-on-it, way of ensuring you wear your creative energy down to nothing... ( added 358 days 19 hours ago.) |
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Increase Creativity and Achieve Your Creative Goals: Putting Flesh On The Bones Of Hope -
Dan Goodwin (60) Dan Goodwin “Hope is a desire with an expectation of accomplishment." The origin of this quote is unknown, but the words ring as clear today as whenever it was first said. Unless we have hope that we’re moving towards something, progressing in a particular direction and that with consistent measured effort... ( added 358 days 19 hours ago.) |
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Increase Creativity: New Creative Wardrobe - Where Would YOU Start? -
Dan Goodwin (60) Dan Goodwin Imagine that you lost all of your clothes in a domestic disaster like a fire. In some ways you’d probably be very upset at losing some of the garments that you love, make you feel good about yourself, and trigger off happy memories. Looking at it from another perspective, there were probably lots... ( added 358 days 20 hours ago.) |
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Try This Decision Making Process -
Steve Gillman (9,691) Not sure what to do? Try the following seven step decision making process the next time you need to make up your mind about something important. And take notes! 1. What are your immediate intuitive feelings? Make a few notes about your immediate "gut reaction." For example, if you're not... ( added 1 year 9 days ago.) |
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The Art Of Thinking -
Steve Gillman (9,691) What do I mean by the art of thinking? It may seem that powerful thinking should simply be logical, and nothing more. The ideal thinker then, might be Spock, the "Vulcan" in the "Star Trek" television show and movies. Of course, if you watch the program, you may recall that the humans aboard the... ( added 1 year 13 days ago.) |
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Thinking Outside The Box - Try This -
Steve Gillman (9,691) Ready to start thinking outside the box? You hear the expression enough, but what is the box, and how do you get outside of it with your thinking? Start with the following technique. The Metaphorical Box To play with the metaphor a little, imagine that you are actually in a box. Written on... ( added 1 year 23 days ago.) |
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Can You Find a Solution To This Puzzle? -
Steve Gillman (9,691) For this wordplay puzzle, fill in the blank below with a word. That part is easy, but the second part of the challenge is to then use that word three times consecutively in a new sentence, with proper punctuation. The problem was that we wanted to go to the beach, ___________ it took all day... ( added 1 year 29 days ago.) |
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What Do Your Dreams Mean? -
Steve Gillman (9,691) What do your dreams mean? This hasn't been clearly answered by science yet. It is possible that they are a way to exercise the brain and keep it functioning efficiently. Some scientists theorize that dreaming is a way to categorize and "file away" things that weren't sufficiently dealt with... ( added 1 year 32 days ago.) |
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Creativity is the Answer -
Pat Heydlauff (324)  Pat Heydlauff Are you the creative type? Do you or would you like to be an artist, create moving poetry, write a book, sculpt a magnificent statue or create music that speaks to your soul? Or, are you so busy working or doing "stuff" you don't have time to think about creativity and what role it might play in... ( added 70 days 2 hours ago.) |
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Why I Write Articles, and Why You Should Too -
- E. S. Lorence (65) Since recently taking up article writing, it has been one of the most rewarding pursuits thus far. Now I don't pretend to be the absolute authority on every issue of which I write, as there will always be someone with more expertise on any given topic. But that is not really the point of... ( added 129 days 10 hours ago.) |
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Increase Creative Self-Belief: Overcoming The Danger Of Negative "Snap-Back" -
Dan Goodwin (60) Dan Goodwin Isn’t technology wonderful when it actually improves our daily lives? An example is a product that’s used for the frames of many modern pairs of glasses. Flexon is a laws-of-nature defying material that has its own “memory" , allowing the frames to instantly return to their original shape when... ( added 358 days 20 hours ago.) |
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